1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Nepal
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Israel, Mauritius
1.7 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
3.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
3.10 Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
बाय (Bāya)
3.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doteli
Maharashtrian Konkani
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA7,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,900,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million71.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million68.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
मराठी (marāṭhī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Marathi people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Maharashtri Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System (ISS)
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available